Operating System Support
•Windows Server 2003*, Windows 2000* Enterprise Server, SP4 and Windows XP*.
•Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 3.0 and 4.0.
•SuSE* Linux Enterprise Server 9,
The operating systems supported may not be supported by your server board. See the tested operating system list for your server board at http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/. See also the tested hardware and operating system list for the RAID Controller SRCSATAWB to make sure the RAID card supports your operating system.
Usability
•The card ships with both a standard and a
•Small, thin cabling with serial
•Support for
•Support for intelligent XOR RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60.
•Dedicated or global hot spare with auto rebuild if an array drive fails.
•User defined stripe size per drive: 8, 16, 32, 64 (def), 128, 256, 512 KB or 1 GB.
•Advanced Array configuration and Management Utilities provides:
—Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) adds space to existing drive or new drive. See Appendix A for limitations on OCE and RAID migration.
—Online RAID level migration (upgrade of RAID mode, may require OCE).
—Drive migration.
—Drive roaming.
—No reboot necessary after expansion.
•Upgradeable Flash ROM interface.
•Allows for staggered spin up,
•User specified rebuild rate (percent of system resources to use from
Caution: Exceeding 50% rate may cause operating system errors due to waiting for controller access.
•Background operating mode can be set for Rebuilds, Consistency Checks, Initialization (auto restarting Consistency Check on redundant volumes); Migration, OCE, and Patrol Read.
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